Thursday, December 25, 2014

AL QUMRAN: The Dead Sea Scroll and Christianity…




In one of the YouTube exchanges of opinions that more often than not ends up in name calling; the arguments was – the Dead Sea Scroll have vindicated Christianity. I wonder if these YouTube marauders know what they are talking about. I know for sure at least I thought I knew for sure that the Dead Sea scroll has nothing to do with Christianity. It’s an ancient manuscript of the Hebrew Bible hidden by its owners in many caves in Al Qumran, Palestine more than 2,000 years ago. Carbon dating of the manuscripts put it at 150 BCE – 68 ACE (A.D.). Nothing in the 85,000 pieces of torn manuscript mentioned about Jesus, Christianity or the New Testament but maybe I was wrong. I wanted to know more…

After many hours of watching documentaries and reading – I realized that the Dead Sea scroll is a Dragon slayer that will kill Christianity. The Dominican monks who studied it for more than 30 years keeping it away from Jewish scholars couldn’t find any earth shaking connections with Jesus and the New Testament. They finally opened it in 1990 to the world of scholarly research.

The “teacher of righteousness” was the leader and possibly founder of the Essenes; a fundamentalist group of Jews who owned the library that included biblical scriptures better known as the Dead Sea scrolls. Although it could not be ascertained how the teacher of righteousness died in the hands of the ruling Jewish hierarchy; many believe that he was among the 800 crucified by the wicked priest in 63 BCE shortly before Palestine was conquered by the Roman legions.

Although the absence of Jesus maybe ignored quietly; learned Christians who are true seekers of truth many of who have already left the faith may find the “Teacher of Righteousness” earth shaking proof of Jesus being a myth. I wonder if Paul and his bunch of Jew conspirators who founded Christianity were remnant members of the “Essenes” who resurrected the teacher of righteousness by creating a myth in the person of Jesus.

Christian scholars continue to find and maintain without proof that Jesus although his name was not mentioned anywhere in the scrolls had somehow something to do with the scrolls. Some even believe that the name Joshua mentioned few times in the scroll was Jesus; the name ‘Jesus Christ’ being a title not a name. Many Christians are now becoming more Jewish than Christian by saying Jews and Christians worship the same God; something Jews who hate Jesus will find laughable. For Christians to come to terms with the Jewish religion where Jesus belonged; they must give up the notion that Jesus is God or the son of the God. For Christians to worship the same God that Jesus worshiped while he walked among men; they should form a new religion, become a Jew or become a Muslim.



There are many interesting documentaries of the “Dead Sea Scroll” you will find on YouTube particularly the apocalyptic prophecies; a battle between the sons of light and the sons of darkness. 

Thursday, December 11, 2014

THE AMERICAN GULAG: CIA ‘Torture Report’

As a Muslim; I can’t help but wonder – are these torturers
did what they did because their victims are Muslims? Hmm! I am keeping this in
my blog for record keeping.

SNIP:



Interrogations that lasted for days on end. Detainees forced
to stand on broken legs, or go 180 hours in a row without sleep. A prison so
cold, one suspect essentially froze to death. The Senate Intelligence Committee
is finally releasing its review of the CIA’s detention and interrogation
programs. And it is brutal.




The Most Gruesome Moments in the CIA ‘Torture Report’

The CIA’s rendition, interrogation, and detention programs were even more nightmarish than you could imagine.
Interrogations that lasted for days on end. Detainees forced to stand on broken legs, or go 180 hours in a row without sleep. A prison so cold, one suspect essentially froze to death. The Senate Intelligence Committee is finally releasing its review of the CIA’s detention and interrogation programs. And it is brutal.
Here are some of the most gruesome moments of detainee abuse from a summary of the report, obtained by The Daily Beast:
Well Worn Waterboards
The CIA has previously said that only three detainees were ever waterboarded: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah, and Abd Al Rahim al-Nashiri. But records uncovered by the Senate Intelligence Committee suggest there may have been more than three subjects. The Senate report describes a photograph of a “well worn” waterboard, surrounded by buckets of water, at a detention site where the CIA has claimed it never subjected a detainee to this procedure. In a meeting with the CIA in 2013, the agency was not able to explain the presence of this waterboard.
Near Drowning
Contrary to CIA’s description to the Department of Justice, the Senate report says that the waterboarding was physically harmful, leading to convulsions and vomiting. During one session, detainee Abu Zubaydah became “completely unresponsive with bubbles rising through his open full mouth.” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded at least 183 times, which the Senate report describes as escalating into a “series of near drownings.”
The Dungeon-Like Salt Pit 
Opened in Sept. 2002, this “poorly managed” detention facility was the second site opened by the CIA after the 9/11 attacks. The Senate report refers to it by the pseudonym Cobalt, but details of what happened there indicate that it’s a notorious “black site” in Afghanistan known as the Salt Pit. Although the facility kept few formal records, the committee concluded that untrained CIA operatives conducted unauthorized, unsupervised interrogation there.
A Senate aide who briefed reporters on the condition that he not be identified said that the Cobalt site was run by a junior officer with no relevant experience, and that this person had “issues” in his background that should have disqualified him from working for the CIA at all. The aide didn’t specify what those issues were, but suggested that the CIA should have flagged them. The committee found that some employees at the site lacked proper training and had “histories of violence and mistreatment of others.”
Standing on Broken Legs
In November 2002, a detainee who had been held partially nude and chained to the floor died, apparently from hypothermia. This case appears similar to the that of Gul Rahman, who died of similarly explained causes at an Afghan site known as the “Salt Pit,” also in November 2002. The site was also called “The Dark Prison”by former captives.
The aide said that the Cobalt site was was dark, like a dungeon, and that experts who visited the site said they’d never seen an American prison where people were kept in such conditions. The facility was so dark in some places that guard had to wear head lamps, while other rooms were flooded with bright lights and white noise to disorient detainees.
At the Cobalt facility, the CIA also forced some detainees who had broken feet or legs to stand in stress-inducing positions, despite having earlier pledged that they wouldn’t subject those wounded individuals to treatment that might exacerbate their injuries.
Non-stop Interrogation
Starting with Abu Zubaydah, and following with other detainees, the CIA deployed the harshest techniques from the beginning without trying to first elicit information in an “open, non-threatening manner,” the committee found. The torture continued nearly non-stop, for days or weeks at a time.
The CIA instructed personnel at the site that the interrogation of Zubaydah, who’d been shot during his capture, should take “precedence over his medical care,” the committee found, leading to an infection in a bullet wound incurred during his capture. Zubaydah lost his left eye while in custody. The CIA’s instructions also ran contrary to how it told the Justice Department the prisoner would be treated.
The CIA forced some detainees who had broken feet or legs to stand in stress-inducing positions, despite having earlier pledged that they wouldn’t subject those wounded individuals to treatment that might exacerbate their injuries.
Forced Rectal Feeding and Worse
At least five detainees were subjected to “rectal feeding” or “rectal hydration,” without any documented medical need. “While IV infusion is safe and effective,” one officer wrote, rectal hydration could be used as a form of behavior control.
Others were deprived of sleep, which could involve staying awake for as long as 180 hours—sometimes standing, sometimes with their hands shackled above their heads.
Some detainees were forced to walk around naked, or shackled with their hands above their heads. In other instances, naked detainees were hooded and dragged up and down corridors while subject to physical abuse.
At one facility, detainees were kept in total darkness and shackled in cells with loud noise or music, and only a bucket to use for waste.
Lost Detainees
While the CIA has said publicly that it held about 100 detainees, the committee found that at least 119 people were in the agency’s custody.
“The fact is they lost track and they didn’t really know who they were holding,” the Senate aide said, noting that investigators found emails in which CIA personnel were “surprised” to find some people in their custody. The CIA also determined that at least 26 of its detainees were wrongfully held. Due to the agency’s poor record-keeping, it may never be known precisely how many detainees were held, and how they were treated in custody, the committee found.
No Blockbuster Intelligence
The report will conclude that the CIA’s interrogation techniques never yielded any intelligence about imminent terrorist attacks. Investigators didn’t conclude that no information came from the program at all. Rather, the committee rejects the CIA’s contention that information came from the program that couldn’t have been obtained through other means.
“When you put detainees through these [torture sessions] they will say whatever they can say to get the interrogations to stop,” the Senate aide said. 
The Senate Intelligence Committee reviewed 20 cited examples of intelligence “successes” that the CIA identified from the interrogation program and found that there was no relationship between a cited counterterrorism success and the techniques used. Furthermore, the information gleaned during torture sessions merely corroborated information already available to the intelligence community from other sources, including reports, communications intercepts, and information from law-enforcement agencies, the committee found. The CIA had told policymakers and the Department of Justice that the information from torture was unique or “otherwise unavailable.” Such information comes from the “kind of good national-security tradecraft that we rely on to stop terrorist plots at all times,” the Senate aide said.
In developing the enhanced interrogation techniques, the report said, the CIA failed to review the historical use of coercive interrogations. The resulting techniques were described as “discredited coercive interrogation techniques such as those used by torturous regimes during the Cold War to elicit false confessions,” according to the committee. The CIA acknowledged that it never properly reviewed the effectiveness of these techniques, despite the urging of the CIA inspector general, congressional leadership, and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
Contractors and Shrinks
The CIA relied on two outside contractors who were psychologists with experience at the Air Force’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape school to help develop, run, and assess the interrogation program. Neither had experience as an interrogator, nor any specialized knowledge of al Qaeda, counterterrorism, or relevant linguistic expertise, the committee found. In 2005, these two psychologists formed a company, and following this the CIA outsourced virtually all aspects of the interrogation program to them. The company was paid more than $80 million by the CIA.
Lies to the President
An internal report by the CIA, known as the Panetta Review, found that there were numerous inaccuracies in the way the agency represented the effectiveness of interrogation techniques—and that the CIA misled the president about this. The CIA’s records also contradict the evidence the agency provided of some “thwarted” terrorist attacks and the capture of suspects, which the CIA linked to the use of these enhanced techniques. The Senate’s report also concludes that there were cases in which White House questions were not answered truthfully or completely.
Cover-Ups
In the early days of the program, CIA officials briefed the leadership of the House Intelligence Committee. Few records of that session remain, but Senate investigators found a draft summary of the meeting, written by a CIA lawyers, that notes lawmakers “questioned the legality of these techniques.” But the lawyer deleted that line from the final version of the summary. The Senate investigators found that Jose Rodriguez, once the CIA’s top spy and a fierce defender of the interrogation program, made a note on the draft approving of the deletion: “Short and sweet,” Rodriguez wrote of the newly revised summary that failed to mention lawmakers’ concerns about the legality of the program.
Threats to Mothers
CIA officers threatened to harm detainees’ children, sexually abuse their mothers, and “cut [a detainee’s] mother’s throat.” In addition, several detainees were led to believe they would die in custody, with one told he would leave in a coffin-shaped box.
Detainees wouldn’t see their day in court because “we can never let the world know what I have done to you,” one interrogator said.
Sexual Assault by Interrogators 
Officers in the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program included individuals who the committee said, “among other things, had engaged in inappropriate detainee interrogations, had workplace anger management issues, and had reportedly admitted to sexual assault.”







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Thursday, November 27, 2014

"GIF" gives life to still photography...

Beautiful 'GIF' around the web; an amazing tech that gives life to still photography.

The Graphics Interchange Format (better known by its acronym GIF; /ˈdʒɪf/ or /ˈɡɪf/) is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987[1] and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.
The format supports up to 8 bits per pixel for each image, allowing a single image to reference its own palette of up to 256 different colors chosen from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of up to 256 colors for each frame.


















Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Pacquiao’s 25 GREATEST FIGHTS…

If you are confident that you have watched all Pacquiao’s fight; think again. This is a 31 minutes of delightful non-stop action that you will definitely enjoy watching whether you are a Pacquiao fan or not. It is something worth keeping in your file that you can always tap to show your friends or watch when there is nothing better to see on the net. Highlights of Pacquiao’s 25 greatest fights (embed). 




Monday, November 10, 2014

WAR OF GOOD AND EVIL: which side are you...?

I have always argued on You Tube threads that Christians have
nothing to fear from the Biblical Beasts (Beast 666 (UN), Biblical Dragon (USA)
and the 2nd Beast north of Babylon (NATO) because these beasts are
theirs bent on destroying Islam for reasons I can only speculate about – inevitable
WAR OF GOOD AND EVIL in the world.



When Obama began bombing targets inside Syria in September,
I noted that it was the seventh predominantly Muslim country that had been
bombed by the U.S. during his presidency (that did not count Obama’s bombing of
the Muslim minority in the Philippines). I also previously noted that this new
bombing campaign meant that Obama had become the fourth consecutive U.S.
President to order bombs dropped on Iraq. Standing alone, those are both
amazingly revealing facts. American violence is so ongoing and continuous that
we barely notice it any more. Just this week, a U.S. drone launched a missile
that killed 10 people in Yemen, and the dead were promptly labeled “suspected
militants” (which actually just means they are “military-age males”); those
killings received almost no discussion.

To get a full scope of American violence in the world, it is
worth asking a broader question: how many countries in the Islamic world has
the U.S. bombed or occupied since 1980? That answer was provided in a recent
Washington Post op-ed by the military historian and former U.S. Army Col.
Andrew Bacevich:

As America’s efforts to “degrade and ultimately destroy”
Islamic State militants extent into Syria, Iraq War III has seamlessly morphed
into Greater Middle East Battlefield XIV. That is, Syria has become at least
the 14th country in the Islamic world that U.S. forces have invaded or occupied
or bombed, and in which American soldiers have killed or been killed. And
that’s just since 1980.
Let’s tick them off: Iran (1980, 1987-1988), Libya (1981,
1986, 1989, 2011), Lebanon (1983), Kuwait (1991), Iraq (1991-2011, 2014-),
Somalia (1992-1993, 2007-), Bosnia (1995), Saudi Arabia (1991, 1996),
Afghanistan (1998, 2001-), Sudan (1998), Kosovo (1999), Yemen (2000, 2002-),
Pakistan (2004-) and now Syria. Whew.

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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Amusing Android Photo Apps…

Due to lack of subjects; I use my TV as a source, scenes from my town and picture files. With camera and photo editing apps almost limitless; combination of some make an amusing hobby like for instance – GIF cam application alone don’t give you the quality you desire but if you take 10-30 seconds of video of the scene that you want and use another application that convert your video into a GIF then you can choose 3-5 seconds from your video and convert it to a GIF and voila! Video collage is a nice application but it gives you only seconds of video that plays your photos quickly. You need to click the play every time to repeat but you can convert that to a GIF to create a loop and play forever. You can also create video picture collages and stitch those together to create a longer video through – you guess it right: MOVIE MAKER!

Garden Park just outside my apartment door…

The lioness of WTA roars at the FINAL CUP in Singapore

The king of ATP wins the China Open (Shanghai)

Lovelynish

Scenes from my town…


Friday, October 17, 2014

BIBLE PROPHESIES: The Caliph of Babylon

I have been for more than twenty years arguing for Babylon ever since the passage of UN Resolution 666 on September 13, 1990. I found it weird that Christians of all people who believe in the bible as a holy book refuse to accept the Biblical Babylon as the same Babylon referred to in the Book of Revelation although the same biblical places are mentioned by names. Whenever I mentioned UN Resolution 666; they look at me wide-eyed hearing it for the first time. With the advent of the internet and YouTube; I became even more open and argumentatively combative especially with people in the web maligning Islam the latest of which is the rise of ISIS. Finally I found one who scholarly as a Christian in authority says that there is no other Babylon as I have always been saying other than the original Babylon of the Bible which is Iraq. I have edited the following video to show only the parts describing Babylon. This man is rabidly anti-Islam in fact my thread on this video was: “UN Resolution 666 is the beginning of the end you moron…the ISIS is just the natural evolution of your Christian government’s evils in the Middle East.”




Sunday, October 5, 2014

THE QUR’AN AND THE MINDBOGGLING DARK ENERGY

It is hard to imagine that the following verses were written 1,400 years ago. It is easier to comprehend for the moon to be rent asunder or earth to be shaken to its core but for the stars to dim and the heaven/sky to be rent asunder is something we just accept however impossible because God says so. The following 1 minute video is a clip from a 44 minutes scientific documentary that I also embedded here for those who have the time.


Qur’an 51:47: ‘Verily: we are able to extend the vastness of space thereof.’
Qur’an 77: 7-9 “Assuredly, what ye are promised must come to pass. (7) Then when the stars become dim; (8) When the heaven is cleft asunder; (9)”






Friday, October 3, 2014

THE HAJJ - The Last Sermon

“O people - your Lord is One, and your father is one: all of you are from Adam, and Adam was from the ground. The noblest of you in Allah’s sight is the most God-fearing: Arab has no merit over non-Arab other than piety.”




O people: the Devil has despaired of ever being worshipped in this land of yours, though he is content to be obeyed in other works of yours, that you deem to be of little importance.

O people: postponing the inviolability of a sacred month [claiming to postpone the prohibition of killing in it to a subsequent month, so as to continue warring despite the sacred month’s having arrived] is a surfeit of unbelief, by which those who disbelieve are led astray, making it lawful one year and unlawful in another, in order to match the number [of months] Allah has made inviolable. Time has verily come full turn, to how it was the day Allah created the heavens and the earth. Four months there are which are inviolable, three in a row and forth by itself: Dhul Qa‘da, Dhul Hijja, and Muharram; and Rajab, which lies between Jumada and Sha‘ban. Have I given the message?—O Allah, be my witness.

O people: verily you owe your women their rights, and they owe you yours. They may not lay with another men in your beds, let anyone into your houses you do not want without your permission, or commit indecency. If they do, Allah has given you leave to debar them, send them from your beds, or [finally] strike them in a way that does no harm. But if they desist, and obey you, then you must provide for them and clothe them fittingly. The women who live with you are like captives, unable to manage for themselves: you took them as a trust from Allah, and enjoyed their sex as lawful through a word [legal ruling] from Allah. So fear Allah in respect to women, and concern yourselves with their welfare. Have I given the message?—O Allah, be my witness.

O people, believers are but brothers. No one may take his brother’s property without his full consent. Have I given the message?—O Allah, be my witness. Never go back to being unbelievers, smiting each other’s necks, for verily, I have left among you that which if you take it, you will never stray after me: the Book of Allah. Have I given the message?—O Allah, be my witness.

O people, your Lord is One, and your father is one: all of you are from Adam, and Adam was from the ground. The noblest of you in Allah’s sight is the most godfearing: Arab has no merit over non-Arab other than godfearingness. Have I given the message?—O Allah, be my witness. —At this, they said yes.

He said, Then let whomever is present tell whomever is absent.

O people, Allah has apportioned to every deserving heir his share of the estate, and no deserving heir may accept a special bequest, and no special bequest may exceed a third of the estate. A child’s lineage is that of the [husband who owns the] bed, and adulterers shall be stoned. Whoever claims to be the son of someone besides his father or a bondsman who claims to belong to other than his masters shall bear the curse of Allah and the angels and all men: no deflecting of it or ransom for it shall be accepted from him.

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Last 5 Minutes: Phil Smart Gilas vs Korea

See how to lose a game you are not only expected to win but sure to win. The weakness of GILAS is largely psychological. They usually start strong and lose momentum as the game progresses meaning they lose confidence. You can almost feel their nervousness in the end and then there is the coach who spouts vindictive when they bungle it up. He enhances his player’s nervousness instead of boosting their confidence. He made his players hesitant to make a shot.  Alapag made two beautiful drives that were not repeated meaning if I am the coach; I would have let him do it more often especially when I needed a point to catch up. They foul him – the better. CONCLUSION: Change the coach! 




Sunday, September 21, 2014

AMAZING – a Djinn caught on video…

One time or another regardless of creed or religious belief – you must have dream of strange things that every culture in every nook and cranny of the planet has a special name for. From time to time – those that we relegate to the world of the spirits do appear in form of the physical whose shadows witness to their being real and not a figment of our imagination. This Djinn (every Muslim believes in their presence) was caught in one or two seconds video – amazing. 


Thursday, September 11, 2014

THE BEAST RETURNS TO BABYLON: United States (USA) vs Islamic State (IS)

Sounds weird –


Yeah Mr. President; you and I mean you and your predecessors created this monster so you kill it. The ISIL is just one of the ripples of your legacies in the Middle East since you, the Evil Empire of the Brits and the United Nations connived to plant the seed of evil (Israel) in the midst of the Muslim World. For as long as you remain a whimpering dragon to your masters in Israel – there will never be peace in the Middle East. You created a replicating vampire that you cannot handle which is sucking the life of many for so long in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria and back again to Babylon (Iraq). Good Luck…I mean it or maybe not. Endless wars you crave – endless wars you get. 



FULL TEXT OF THE PRESIDENT’S SPEECH

Editor's note: The White House released this text of the president's prime time address to the nation as it was prepared for delivery

The White House (CNN) -- My fellow Americans -- tonight, I want to speak to you about what the United States will do with our friends and allies to degrade and ultimately destroy the terrorist group known as ISIL.

As Commander-in-Chief, my highest priority is the security of the American people. Over the last several years, we have consistently taken the fight to terrorists who threaten our country. We took out Osama bin Laden and much of al Qaeda's leadership in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We've targeted al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen, and recently eliminated the top commander of its affiliate in Somalia. We've done so while bringing more than 140,000 American troops home from Iraq, and drawing down our forces in Afghanistan, where our combat mission will end later this year. Thanks to our military and counterterrorism professionals, America is safer.

Still, we continue to face a terrorist threat. We cannot erase every trace of evil from the world, and small groups of killers have the capacity to do great harm. That was the case before 9/11, and that remains true today. That's why we must remain vigilant as threats emerge. At this moment, the greatest threats come from the Middle East and North Africa, where radical groups exploit grievances for their own gain. And one of those groups is ISIL -- which calls itself the "Islamic State."
Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.

In a region that has known so much bloodshed, these terrorists are unique in their brutality. They execute captured prisoners. They kill children. They enslave, rape, and force women into marriage. They threatened a religious minority with genocide. In acts of barbarism, they took the lives of two American journalists -- Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff.

So ISIL poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria, and the broader Middle East -- including American citizens, personnel and facilities. If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region -- including to the United States. While we have not yet detected specific plotting against our homeland, ISIL leaders have threatened America and our allies. Our intelligence community believes that thousands of foreigners -- including Europeans and some Americans -- have joined them in Syria and Iraq. Trained and battle-hardened, these fighters could try to return to their home countries and carry out deadly attacks.

President Obama: 'ISIL is not Islamic'

I know many Americans are concerned about these threats. Tonight, I want you to know that the United States of America is meeting them with strength and resolve. Last month, I ordered our military to take targeted action against ISIL to stop its advances. Since then, we have conducted more than 150 successful airstrikes in Iraq. These strikes have protected American personnel and facilities, killed ISIL fighters, destroyed weapons, and given space for Iraqi and Kurdish forces to reclaim key territory. These strikes have helped save the lives of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
But this is not our fight alone. American power can make a decisive difference, but we cannot do for Iraqis what they must do for themselves, nor can we take the place of Arab partners in securing their region. That's why I've insisted that additional U.S. action depended upon Iraqis forming an inclusive government, which they have now done in recent days. So tonight, with a new Iraqi government in place, and following consultations with allies abroad and Congress at home, I can announce that America will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat.

Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy.

First, we will conduct a systematic campaign of airstrikes against these terrorists. Working with the Iraqi government, we will expand our efforts beyond protecting our own people and humanitarian missions, so that we're hitting ISIL targets as Iraqi forces go on offense. Moreover, I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

Second, we will increase our support to forces fighting these terrorists on the ground. In June, I deployed several hundred American service members to Iraq to assess how we can best support Iraqi Security Forces. Now that those teams have completed their work -- and Iraq has formed a government -- we will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission -- we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq. But they are needed to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces with training, intelligence and equipment. We will also support Iraq's efforts to stand up National Guard Units to help Sunni communities secure their own freedom from ISIL control.

Across the border, in Syria, we have ramped up our military assistance to the Syrian opposition. Tonight, I again call on Congress to give us additional authorities and resources to train and equip these fighters. In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it has lost. Instead, we must strengthen the opposition as the best counterweight to extremists like ISIL, while pursuing the political solution necessary to solve Syria's crisis once and for all.

Third, we will continue to draw on our substantial counterterrorism capabilities to prevent ISIL attacks. Working with our partners, we will redouble our efforts to cut off its funding; improve our intelligence; strengthen our defenses; counter its warped ideology; and stem the flow of foreign fighters into -- and out of -- the Middle East. And in two weeks, I will chair a meeting of the UN Security Council to further mobilize the international community around this effort.

Fourth, we will continue providing humanitarian assistance to innocent civilians who have been displaced by this terrorist organization. This includes Sunni and Shia Muslims who are at grave risk, as well as tens of thousands of Christians and other religious minorities. We cannot allow these communities to be driven from their ancient homelands.

This is our strategy. And in each of these four parts of our strategy, America will be joined by a broad coalition of partners. Already, allies are flying planes with us over Iraq; sending arms and assistance to Iraqi Security Forces and the Syrian opposition; sharing intelligence; and providing billions of dollars in humanitarian aid. Secretary Kerry was in Iraq today meeting with the new government and supporting their efforts to promote unity, and in the coming days he will travel across the Middle East and Europe to enlist more partners in this fight, especially Arab nations who can help mobilize Sunni communities in Iraq and Syria to drive these terrorists from their lands. This is American leadership at its best: we stand with people who fight for their own freedom; and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity.

My Administration has also secured bipartisan support for this approach here at home. I have the authority to address the threat from ISIL. But I believe we are strongest as a nation when the President and Congress work together. So I welcome congressional support for this effort in order to show the world that Americans are united in confronting this danger.

Now, it will take time to eradicate a cancer like ISIL. And any time we take military action, there are risks involved -- especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions. But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil. This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out ISIL wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground. This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years. And it is consistent with the approach I outlined earlier this year: to use force against anyone who threatens America's core interests, but to mobilize partners wherever possible to address broader challenges to international order.

My fellow Americans, we live in a time of great change. Tomorrow marks 13 years since our country was attacked. Next week marks 6 years since our economy suffered its worst setback since the Great Depression. Yet despite these shocks; through the pain we have felt and the grueling work required to bounce back -- America is better positioned today to seize the future than any other nation on Earth.
Our technology companies and universities are unmatched; our manufacturing and auto industries are thriving. Energy independence is closer than it's been in decades. For all the work that remains, our businesses are in the longest uninterrupted stretch of job creation in our history. Despite all the divisions and discord within our democracy, I see the grit and determination and common goodness of the American people every single day -- and that makes me more confident than ever about our country's future.

Abroad, American leadership is the one constant in an uncertain world. It is America that has the capacity and the will to mobilize the world against terrorists. It is America that has rallied the world against Russian aggression, and in support of the Ukrainian peoples' right to determine their own destiny. It is America -- our scientists, our doctors, our know-how -- that can help contain and cure the outbreak of Ebola. It is America that helped remove and destroy Syria's declared chemical weapons so they cannot pose a threat to the Syrian people -- or the world -- again. And it is America that is helping Muslim communities around the world not just in the fight against terrorism, but in the fight for opportunity, tolerance, and a more hopeful future.

America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead. From Europe to Asia -- from the far reaches of Africa to war-torn capitals of the Middle East -- we stand for freedom, for justice, for dignity. These are values that have guided our nation since its founding. Tonight, I ask for your support in carrying that leadership forward. I do so as a Commander-in-Chief who could not be prouder of our men and women in uniform -- pilots who bravely fly in the face of danger above the Middle East, and service-members who support our partners on the ground.

When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said. "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people."
That is the difference we make in the world. And our own safety -- our own security -- depends upon our willingness to do what it takes to defend this nation, and uphold the values that we stand for -- timeless ideals that will endure long after those who offer only hate and destruction have been vanquished from the Earth.

May God bless our troops, and may God bless the United States of America.


Sunday, September 7, 2014

GUANTANAMO BAY – Island Paradise to USA’s Torture Island…

From island paradise to Torture Island – that is how USA
turned Guantanamo Bay into hell for Muslim detainees. Of the more than700
detainees not prisoners; 149 remained and only 5 are considered high profile
who after more than 10 years are still waiting to be tried. The USA’s government
is absolutely certain that if the remaining prisoners are released; they will
join Jihadists groups and will probably kill the first American they find in
the street anywhere. Imagine – if you are innocent and being tortured; you will
swear by God that if you come of it alive – you will kill the first American you
find. Justice is human nature. The US government cannot risk letting them go. To
deceive human right groups; the US army holding the detainees has stopped using
the word “Hunger Strike” but instead uses “non-religious prolonged fasting” to
refer to hunger strikers who are being forced feed, another form of torture to
keep them alive.

Please watch 27 minutes documentary…





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Thursday, September 4, 2014

QUESTIONS OF BELIEF: to move or not the prophet’s grave…

When you are dead; your remains become an inanimate object
that will eventually succumb to the whims of nature. I disavow any form of
extremism except one; the oneness of God. I made many trips to Mecca in the
last 30 years that I am in the Kingdom but not once did I kiss the black stone
nor even attempted to do so for one reason only – I feel uncomfortable with the
mere thought of touching even more so with kissing any object for religious
reason. I feel that the act will make me no different from idolatrous
religions.

Shock is a strong word to use but that is how I felt when I
went to Medina for the first time and found the grave of the prophet inside the
Mosque with people praying around it. I knew that it is forbidden in Islam to
bury the dead inside a mosque so I later searched how the prophet’s grave
happened to be where it is.

The story goes that when the Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.)
passed away; his family and friends agreed after proper consultation to bury
him right where he breathed his last – inside his house. The house is close to
his mosque so that as time passes by and Islam evolved to where it is today so
did his mosque expanded that eventually encroached upon where he was buried
meaning it was not intentional that his grave happened to be inside the mosque.
Maybe now is the time to move it.


Personally; moving the grave to an unmarked grave is the
right thing to do.

Saudis risk new Muslim division with proposal to move Mohamed’s tomb - Middle East - World - The Independent:




One of Islam’s most revered holy sites – the tomb of the
Prophet Mohamed – could be destroyed and his body removed to an anonymous grave
under plans which threaten to spark discord across the Muslim world.

The controversial proposals are part of a consultation
document by a leading Saudi academic which has been circulated among the
supervisors of al-Masjid al-Nabawi mosque in Medina, where the remains of the
Prophet are housed under the Green Dome, visited by millions of pilgrims and
venerated as Islam’s second-holiest site. The formal custodian of the mosque is
Saudi Arabia’s ageing monarch King Abdullah.





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